US 12,187,165 B2
Seat control device, seat control method, non-transitory recording medium
Mitsuyoshi Ohno, Miyoshi (JP); Hideyuki Sakurai, Toyota (JP); and Hiroyuki Tomita, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/874,853.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-133605 (JP), filed on Aug. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0053743 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B60N 2/02 (2006.01); B60N 2/00 (2006.01); B60N 2/01 (2006.01); B60R 11/02 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/0244 (2013.01) [B60N 2/0021 (2023.08); B60N 2/003 (2023.08); B60N 2/01 (2013.01); B60R 11/0229 (2013.01); B60N 2/0268 (2023.08); B60N 2/0272 (2023.08); B60N 2210/24 (2023.08); B60N 2230/30 (2023.08)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A seat control device, comprising:
a memory; and
a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to:
based on a selection by an occupant of a vehicle, select a video display area for displaying a video from among a plurality of video display areas, including a front windshield provided at the vehicle;
determine an adjustment amount corresponding to the selected video display area for a plurality of vehicle seats, including a front seat and a rear seat, provided in the vehicle;
modulate a position and posture of the plurality of vehicle seats based on the determined adjustment amount of the plurality of vehicle seats;
determine the adjustment amount for the position of the plurality of vehicle seats along a vehicle width direction, and a rotation angle of the plurality of vehicle seats about an axis along a vertical direction;
via an in-cabin camera configured to image an interior of a vehicle cabin of the vehicle, detect a seated occupant seated in the plurality of vehicle seats;
determine the vehicle seat adjustment amount in accordance with the plurality of vehicle seats in which the detected occupant is seated; and
in a case in which the occupant selects the front windshield as the video display area and the processor detects occupants seated in the front seat and the rear seat, cause the front seat to move to a vehicle width direction edge and rotate from a vehicle forward direction to face toward a vehicle width direction inner side in a plan view so as to face a center portion of the front windshield, and cause the rear seat to move toward a vehicle width direction center.